Garber Sentinel. (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1915 Page: 2 of 8
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THE SENTINEL. GARBER, OKLAHOMA.
IN MUSLINS AND SILKS
PARISIENNEj TURN TO DELICATE
MATERIALS FOR RELIEF.
War Has Brought So Much Nursing
and Needlework That Jainty Gar-
ments for Hours of Leisure
Are Imperative.
We are becoming more and more In-
fatuated with the delicate muslins and
simple silks. A sort of reaction has
set In. We have to occupy ourselves
o much with nursing _nd needlework
that It seems a relief to clothe our
persons in dainty and lovely gar-
ments when we take a few hours' holi-
day, though it should not be said that
a charity fete comes under the head-
ing "holiday." These gigantic fetes
call for an Immense amount of hard
work, and on the day itself one never
finds a quiet moment, writes Idalia de
Vllliers, Paris correspondent of the
Boston Globe.
A dress which attracted my atten-
tion at the Ritz was made of black
mousseline de sole bordered with
black chiffon velvet and mounted over
« plaited slip made of ivory white
crepe de chine. This seemed to be u
one-piece frock.
It is hung straight from the shoui
ders, and was confined at the waist by
ii celnture of velvet. There was a
picturesque coat In line black clian-
tllly and the bodice opened over a
lovely little blouse made of flesh-pink
chiffon and flue lace.
The lace Bleeves of the coatee were
seinitransparent; that is to say, they
were drawn on over the flesh-pink
blouse. They were bishop In design
nnd banded in at the wrists with
bands of black velvet.
A flat-brimined hat made of black
chip was worn with this gown. There
■was a lining of dull blue mirror vel-
vet and round the high crown a fold
of chantilly, caught in by a hand-
some paste buckle in front.
Another coat and skirt, In Joffre-
blue linen, had raised embroideries
carried out in Japonica-plnk, blue,
ljlack and white washing silks.
There were wide revers on the coat
CHILD'S DRESS
GREAT EMPIRE'S FLAG IN THE ENGINE ROOM
combination represented in Place of Stress When Battleship
the german banner.
Of striped blue taffeta with a wide
satin girdle. The dress In made
with the new smocking stitch,
trimmed with four rows of shadow
lace gathered around the neck with
sleeves of the same material.
Is in Action.
cellent; nothing, however, could be J
more objectionable than an embroid-
ered dress worn over a crude and 1
ordinary shade of pink or blue.
Paquin has some fascinating sum-
mer mantles made of soft white linen
which are lined with printed silk and
trimmed on sleeves and cuffs with er- !
mine. These mantles are charming I
when worn in conjunction with lace
or muslin gqwns. The touch of white
fur makes the garment look pictur-
esque and unexpected.
Smart three-cornered toque of white
satin bound with navy blue silk rib-
bon. Navy blue mounts and bows.
a>.d a high turnover collar, as well as
deep gauntlet cufTs. All these were
covered with embroidery.
I spoke in u recent article of the
popularity of white linen suits en-
riched with open-work embroidery In
the English style. Some of these
dresses are veritable works of art,
the skirts being worked in compli-
cated designs almost to the knees, and
the coats worked all over. It Is rather
the fashion to mount skirts of this
order over pale-colored slips, helio-
tropes, or pale pastel blue.
This is a revival of an old fash-
ion, and when subtle colors are
chosen for the slips the result *is ex-
CUT FLOWERS IN THE HOUSE
Most Effective Form of Dccoratlon,
to Which Too Little Attention
Is Usually Given.
No feature of household decoration
ran do more to render a room attrac-
tive than the use of flowers But the
proper arrangement of flowers is an
art, demanding study The Japanese
upend years in acquiring this art; but
the average person gives to the ar-
rangement of cut flowers no more
thought than is given to the most uri-
esthetic of household tasks
In the flrst place most people err in
the matter of vases. A vase should
be considered always in connection
with flowers—not as an object of art
by Itself. Vases of distinctive colors
should be used carefully; a neutral
tlut, green or glass vases are safest.
If you have vases of very positive
shades use them only for flowers with
which they will harmonize Yellow
pottery, for example, Is lovely If tilled
with yellow flowers or with a eombl
nation of blue and yellow flowers. Low
yellow or purple bowls filled with
pantiles are a delight to thu eye. A
gray ginger jar filled with dusty miller
and sweet nlyssuin Is a thing of beau-
ty; the shimmering silver gray of the
foliage and t'>e white of the blossoms
harmonize perfectly with the soft-gray
jar.
Another common mistake In arrang-
ing flowers Is to overcrowd the vase
Never bunch flowers. Each should be
put in the water separately to Insure
a ffood effect. A long strip of lead
colled to flt the bottom of vases la
the best device for keeping flowers
Ortgiit It 1* cot so eipenalra as the
FOR THE THROAT AND NECK
Collars of Dutch and Eton Style in
Order—Colored Boaa Give Soften-
ing Effect to the Face.
Dutch and eton style collars in
laundered and semllaundered designs
are worn with silk or crepe Windsor
ties. Dainty ribbon and flowered gar-
nitures are used on dressy designs
of embroidery and lace, which are
always V-shaped. Flaring collars and
cuffs of black patent leather lined
with white pique are smart for a tail-
ored suit. Ribbons of the regimental [
stripe order are worn with the above J
and other neckwear seta.
Collar and cuff sets of colored hand j
kerchief linen are worn with tailored |
Buits and sport attire. Malines ruffs j
in black and white are popular. Short |
and long ostrich boas are In royal and j
navy blue, taupe, loam brown, silver [
gray, white, black and white and (
black. They are neck size, or to the !
knees, with ribbon bows or tassels j
on the ends. They are very softening
to the face.
Lace Curtains Renewed.
To do up lace or net curtains and
have them the same color as when
new: When the starch has boiled and
is still hot or boiling put yellow ocher
In and stir it all through until you
have the shade you want your cur-
tains. Five cents' worth of ocher in
the powder will be sufficient for a
large number of curtains.
china or wire arrangements that can
be purchased for the same purpose,
and It has the further advantage of
being easily squeezed into a vase of
any size.
A pretty device for flowers Is the
Aaron's rod to hang on the wall. This
Is merely a stick of bamboo with holes
cut between the joints. Water is
poured into each opening, and the
flowers then set in. Trailing vines—
clematlc, honeysuckle, etc.—are ex-
ceedingly pretty In an Aaron's rod.
Hanging vases for the windows and
corners of the loom are very attrac-
tive. and are to be had In good col-
ors and lines at small cost.
Council Appointed to Select Suitable
Emblem Had a Hard Task—Prus-
sian Delegates Finally Set-
tled the Question.
When the present German empire
was established by uniting the sev-
eral German states into one realm,
the question arose as to what Hag
the new empire should fly. As it
happened, each state wanted its own
special standard adopted, and no two
of them were alike, though as a gen-
eral thing each was composed of two
colors; thus Prussia had black and
white, Bavaria blue and white, Sax-
ony green and white, and every other
state, no matter how small, possessed
a Hag.
When the great Cermaa empire be-
came un established fact, naturally
It was necessary to adopt a banner
that would be distinctive, and include
all the states, as every government
Insisted on being represented, A
council was appointed to take charge
of the whole matter, and the diffi-
culty it encountered In coming to a
decision will be better appreciated
when it is remembered that there
were at least 40 combinations to be
made, If all were to bo satisfied with
the arrangement.
The larger states, the kingdoms,
proposed that their flags should be
united and thus form the national
flag, but the delegates from the small
principalities objected so strongly to
the ignoring of their claims to recog-
nition that this plan was voted down.
Another proposition was that all the
smaller states should be represented
on jack or corner of the flag, and have
a series of stripes, each repre-
senting the five cities of larger
states. This was also rejected as too
cumbersome an arrangement. Again
it was suggested to have each state,
large or small, represented in the
body of the flag, a method of por-
tioning out the surface in squares,
so much to each state. This in-
convenient and inartistic plan was
also rejected.
The Prussian delegates, however,
next prepared a combination of col-
ors and, of course, black and white
were not cast aside. The idea was to
adopt a flag composed of black and
white and red, as this latter had
always been considered an imperial
color. The other kingdoms objected
fiercely to the predominance of the
black and white of Prussia over the
blue and white and green and white
of Bavaria and Saxony, but the Prus-
sian delegates found allies In those
from the smaller states, who, recog-
nizing that there was no hope of
having the flags of their own little
states adopted, felt willing to have
the claims of the larger overbearing
states ignored, as well as their own,
so they voted with the I*ru8sianB,
and the black, white and red was ac-
cepted.
Then again, the smaller kingdoms
insisted that each should keep Its
own flag to fly at the head of its
own particular contingent in the
army. This proposition was voted
down, as it was decided it would
give valuable information to an
enemy as to the number of troops,
a great mistake in war times. An-
other proposition, that of hanging
black, red and white stripes parallel
to the stafT, was decided adversely,
on the ground that the red, white
and blue stripes of the French flag,
being hung In that manner, the two
flags might be confused in the midst
of battle. This ended the question,
and the Prussian flag, with the ad-
dition of the imperial red, was adopt-
ed as the national standard of the
whole German empire.
Summer Luncheons
11 ■ in a jiffy
Fighting Strain Becomes of an Inten
sity Hard to Imagine—Deadly
Torpedo the Weapon That
Is Most Feared.
Let us, as a matter of interest, Im
agine that we are in the engine room
of a modern dreadnaught in action.
On each side of us, unobtrusively
stowed away in their mahogany, brass-
bound cases, are the great turbines
Their humming—though we cannot
see them—fills the vast space with the
sound as of a million bees let loose
Near tach one hovers a grimy stoker,
oil can in hand, and his duty It is to
see that these monster humming tops
do not lack for lubrication.
Right in front, on the foremost bulk-
head of the engine room, are the
telegraph dials and the telephones,
each of which is in connection with
the bridge, and under the direct con-
trol of the captain. These are the
things which tell us how the light is
going, for the keen engineer can read
signs and portents in the changes
which are rung upon the telegraph
dials.
A tremendous thing is the fighting
strain. It is bad even up in the great
turrets where men play their parts in
the grim drama, and hurl death and
destruction at the foe, but down here,
where one does nothing but wait for
orders, it is terrible.
The only man who does not seem to
feel the strain is the one who lias ap-
parently the least to do, and that is
the engineer. He, however, is busily do-
ing mental arithmetic. He knows how
many revolutions his screws are do-
ing per minute, and he realizes that
as yet she has still a little bit of
speed up her sleeve.
By and by that last half knot may
be asked for, and he is calculating
how much speed he will be able to
present the captain with when that
final effort is asked for. No one knows
but he, and he won't tell.
There seems to be a kind of waiting
expression on most of the faces, and
if they could tell you what they were
all waiting for it would surprise you.
Shut up as they are in a small steel
boxful of machinery, they are not
thinking of the chance of an enemy's
projectile coming through and killing
them, nor are they waiting for death
to come to them in some other man-
ner. What they are dreading is that
something should go wrong with their
beloved engines — something that
would prevent their "doing their bit"
in this fight.
They are listening—ever listening—
for the hiss of escaping steam which
will tell them of a main steam pipe
hit and carried away; for the shot
that might smash one of the boilers
into small pieces; for the rattle of the
steering engine as the rudder is blown
away, and the ship hanga, without a
guide, in the balance.
And then, with a sickening sidelong
twist and a rattle of the steering en-
gine, the floor of the engine room
takeB on a sickening slant. The ship
has made a sudden and acute turn.
The engineer's face turns from
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Sliced
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and the other good jummer
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Vienna Sausage—you 11 find them
fresh and appetizing.
cheery optimistic red to a fear-stricken
■allow green.
"My God!" he mutters. "Subma-
rines!"
Every man In that engine room and
every stoker in the stokeholds knows
what that sudden and horrible twist
meani II means that the ship has
commenced a quadrille with death;
thai underwater craft are seeking to
end her life and the fight at the same
time
The strained look has gone now.
Everyone Ik eager and anxious to do
but one thing, and that is to obey
the orders which come down from
the bridge as fast as they possibly
can he obeyed. The bridge is having
an anxious lime, but the men in the
depths trust it and reckon It is up to
dealing with the biggest flotilla of sub-
marines that the enemy owns, any
day.
Then, while the ship Is running all
she knows, the unexpected happens.
With a louder and more sudden roar
than ever the steering engine rattles
over to hard a port. At precisely the
same second the telegraph rings "Full
astern, starboard engine. Full ahead
nort." The ship takes a horrible heel
as the rudders—two of tbem—grip
her; the port screw slows down per-
ceptibly as it feels the mighty column
of water deflected from the rudder,
and the starboard one hums along
smoothly as it feel the reversed tur-
bine's thrust.
And even as they spin round the
men can hear the guns putting in good
work and blazing away for all they are
worth. Ten minutes later the enemy's | BOX H, NOTRE DAME
fleet—or what is left of them—are
steaming for harbor again as fast as
they can go.
Imagine yourself shut up In a chat-
tering. humming steel box, with the
odds on being killed, either by shell,
or torpedo explosion, or drowning, or
scalding to death, and with Death
himself throwing all sorts of missiles
at you which you can't even see com-
ing, and you will have a very good
idea of what being in a battleship's
engine room is like in a real pitched
battle.
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Tough Luck.
"You remember that chap Jones
who made a bet of ten thousand dol-
lars that he would walk from San
Francisco to New York without a cent
in his pocket?"
"Yes. Did he win the bfc?"
"Not quite. He got as far as Phila-
delphia. and there he was arrested
as a vagrant and forced against his
will to ride three blocks In a patrol
wagon. That disqualified him."
Her Own Business.
A woman mounted the steps of the
elevated station carrying an umbrella
like a reversed saber. An attendant
touched her lightly, saying:
"Excuse me, madam, but you are
likely to put out the eye of the man
behind you."
"He's my husband!" &he sni ppe4
calmly.
Safety First.
"How did the accident happen?"
"He got run over when he stopped
to read a 'Safety First' sign."
Equitable Division.
"Did you divide the cruller as I told
you with your little brother?"
"Yes, ma. I gave him the hole."
Wntnoii K.Coleman, W'Mb.
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PATENTS
W. N. U„ WICHITA, NO. 30-1915.
Health and Excitement.
The sick rate in Russia has de-
creased since the war began. Part of
tho improvement—doubtless the great-j
er part—is due to the passing of
vodka, but something must be said fori
the curious way in which the human
frame reacts to excitement and de-
velops resistance to disease under thai
stimulus of strong interests or emo-
tions.
The refugees from San Francisco,
for example, had not been devotees of
vodka, but they showed a wonderful
health record during their period of
enforced open-air life and short com-
mons.
A Greater Surprise.
"Where are you goin', ma?" asked
the youngest of five children.
"I'm going to a surprise par.'y, my
dear," answered the mother.
"Are we all goln', too?"
"No, dear; you weren't iivited." •
After a few momentsyieap thouglvt.
"Say, ma. don't Jou *^hlnk
they'd be lots more surprty^jK yoa
did take ti' all?"
No Time.
"Isn't It strange that Mrs. Robin-
sou n^ver attends the Mothers' club
meetings. We've Invited her time and
again."
"I'm afraid she's a hcj,ele&s old fogy.
She insists on staying home ti 'ak*
care of her children."
'Aa president of the French repub-
lic M. Poincare receives a salary of
$120,000 per annum.
PROTECTION IN BAD WEATHER
The vacation girl will find the rub
ber rain smocks very convenient
things, not only for the rainy day, but
for use in clear weather on Buch oc-
casions as she goes boating, fishing
motoring or golfing. It is suggested
that everyone who owns a motor car
Bhould provide himself or herself with
two or three of these handy garments
for guests.
They are made of dull black
leather in fairly light weight and are
long and full skirted. The double
panel of the front has snap fastening
and the collar fastens close un ler the
chin, while the wrists are drawn In
with elastics to Insure absolute pro-
tection Those smocks are done up is
individual rubber bags.
Fashion's Whims.
Dimity and flowered organdie art
very fashionable, and lavender, tlx
color of colors In prim Victorian dajr*
U vary much prefairad.
Negro Minstrelsy Is Dvlnfl.
Other nations may have disputed
our claim to the invention of the
steamboat and the telegraph, but ne-
gro minstrelsy is as indisputably due
to American inventiveness as the
telephone Itself. Here in the United
States it had its humble beginnings;
here it expanded and flourished for
many years; from here it was export-
ed to Great Britain, where it estab-
lished itself for many seasons; from
here it made sporadic excursions Into
France and into Germany; and here
at last it has fallen into a decline and
a degeneracy and a decay which
seem to doom it to a speedy extinc-
tion. Its life was little longer than
that vouchsafed to man, three score
years and ten, for it was born in the
fifth decade of the nineteenth century
and In the second decade of the twen-
tieth it lingers superfluous on the
stage, with none to do It reverence.—
Hrander Matthews In Scrlbner's Maga-
zine.
Trout Drowns a Muskrat.
Lew McQulston, one of Bellefonte'a
best anglerB, went up Spring creek
and while whipping the stream he saw
a lively commotion on the other side
of the creek, says a dispatch to the
Washington Post from Bellefonte, Pa
in the gathering twilight it was hard
to distinguish what It was. but he
finally made out a muskrat and a trout
which he avers, was two feet long.
The big rat managed to get out on
the bank and drew the trout with it
but the flsh flopped around, hanging
on to the rat's nose, until It finally
flopped bark into the water. Within a
few minutes the commotion died down,
and the trout swam away, leaving the
muskrat'a lifeless body on the creek's
bottom.
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Lunch Prepared in a Jiffy
Now for a rest while waiting for John.
Post Toasties
are always ready to eat right from the package — sweet, crisp and tempting.
And what a relief from fussing around in a stuffy kitchen on hot days.
The lunch is a good one—and John likes to find the wife cool and comfortable.
Post Toasties are thin bits of white Indian corn toasted to a golden brown. Eat
with cream and sugar—and some fresh berries—They are delicious.
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